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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here: nowhere am I blaming the kids.
I am just saying - don’t put your kids there. 
No I am not assuming anything looking at skin color or whatever - I see how kids behave, in fact, they are almost all the same ethnicity.
I am sure the quiet kids who just sit their on their own most of the time doing their work are “succeeding”. They get good grades etc.
But they are missing on a full scale school experience with field trips, projects, hands on work etc. 
Because guess what! It is impossible to do hands on work with unruly kids. 
Also, the street smart kids put more naive, well behaving kids in trouble. They tell on them and the teacher who probably doesn’t want to be racist or classist punishes or scolds them. 
Kids who don’t speak Spanish are teased by Spanish speaking kids using unfamiliar terms.
I mean, I guess those kids benefit from having your kid in class, right?[/quote]

OP, no one is saying that your observations about the struggles inside hypersegregated schools aren't correct. We're just pointing out that you are identifying kids, not hypersegregation, as the cause of the issues. Research does not support your hypothesis. Just imagine if the high poverty kids were only, say, 20% of the class. Let's say you had 80% of the class with helicopter parents fundraising with the PTA to do field trips, etc. Yes, those high poverty kids would benefit, and so would you. You wouldn't feel so burnt out and overwhelmed. So don't tell people to avoid tough schools. Tell people to invest in them. Everyone fleeing high poverty schools is a vicious cycle based on some kind of survival instinct, but it's misguided. It's like when a stampede results in deaths. If everyone looked at the big picture instead of panicking, we'd all walk together calmly toward the exit together.[/quote]

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